Girls' Swim and Dive

Coaches

Head Coach: Dan Schneider, 651-457-8806 or daniel.schneider@isd194.org
Diving Coach: Derek Moulton, moultonlava.usmc@yahoo.com, Cell: 612-708-6557

2020 Season Info

Hello everybody!

We hope that you are enjoying your summer and staying healthy. Since many of you are probably wondering about this, we wanted to give you an update on what we know (or really more like what we don’t know) about the upcoming girls swim and dive season. Please remember that all of this is subject to change!

Activity Sign Up
Fee Pay will no longer be used for signups. The district is working on setting up a new program, which is called rSchool. The Lakeville North Activities page indicates that rSchool signups will be available starting August 4. Normally, before you can sign up for an activity, you have to make sure there is a current physical on file. Physicals are good for three years. However, due to Covid, there has been a change in the requirements. Physicals that expire any time during the Covid outbreak, (from when school went virtual in the spring through the future yet unknown end of Covid) will have their expiration date extended for one year. So, those students will not need to complete a new physical before signing up. For students that do not have a physical on file at all, a new physical is still required. For those new students, the physical needs to be completed before you are able to sign up for activities. You can email (Lisa.Krohnberg@isd194.org), fax, or turn the completed physical form in to the school activities office, and then they have to enter it into the system before you will be allowed to sign up. To repeat, you can't swim/dive until you are signed up, and you can't sign up until the physical is in the system.

Season Status
The MN Department of Education and the schools will be meeting during the week of July 27 to decide how the school year is going to start off. Once that has been decided, then the MN State High School League will meet to decide what fall sports will look like. We don't expect to know much about the details of the season until some time in August. What the coaches have been told so far is to plan for a normal season start time, and then adjust from there once we have more information. That being said, the normal season start time would be August 17, with captains practices starting the week before (August 10-14.) Any logistics about what regular and captains practices will look like are still being decided, so we don't have any solid information about that. Normally, we would have a PAC meeting (Parents, Athletes, Coaches) in early August at the high school, and then during the first week of practice, we would have a Welcome to the Season Potluck. This year, we will be doing things a little differently. On Thursday August 13, we will have a meeting which will combine both of these events. It will be held at 7pm, after dinner, at a local park yet to be determined. At the same time, we will live stream the meeting on Facebook Live for those who are not comfortable attending in person. The livestream will also be available after the fact, on the Facebook page. During the meeting, those who are attending virtually can send in any questions via Facebook and we will address those at that time. A maximum of two people from each family are allowed to attend the meeting in person, in order to limit the crowd size. If attending in person, we ask that you bring your own chairs, keep to a six foot minimum between families, and we encourage mask wearing. At this meeting, the coaches, captains and senior parents will present what information we have at the time regarding practices, meets, booster fees, potlucks, pasta dinners, etc. This meeting will just be for the Lakeville North families; Lakeville South will have their own meeting.

Meets
We do not believe we will have the Lakeville Relays, the Maroon and Gold Invite, or True Team Sections. Currently, dual meets, the JV Championship meet, Varsity Sections, and the State Meet are scheduled but we don't know what will actually be held. We have attached a tentative schedule for the upcoming season. You may notice that it does not show the JV Championship meet, but it is scheduled for October 31. The October 24th invite is a diving only event. We do not have any further information on how meets will be held.

Clothing Information
We will be sending out a Sign Up Genius link soon with slots for the swimmers and divers to sign up for apparel try ons. We will be holding try ons at the Pattee's house this year, on 7/20, 7/21, 7/22, 7/23, 7/27, and 7/28. There will be a max of 1 family per each 30 minute time slot, to allow for proper social distancing and sanitizing the clothing in between try ons. Girls will have to wear masks, and we will have hand sanitizer for them to use when they arrive. We will also clean the high touch surfaces in the room they use for try ons in between each family. We will not have suits to try on this year. The suits will be Speedo, and are the same sizing as the Speedo Fastway or Launch Splice. If your swimmer/diver has not worn a Speedo suit in the past, we can talk to them about sizing, and Elsmore will allow a limited number of girls to try on a similar suit at their store.

We will send the link to order clothing and suits in an email, along with pictures. We ask that all families put in their order on the Elsmore website by July 29, however, Elsmore will not place the order or charge your credit card until we know that we will be having a season. Since there is a significant lead time to prepare the orders, we want to have everything ready to go as soon as we get the go ahead. If you aren't comfortable with having your swimmer or diver try things on in person, let us know and we can try to help you choose a size from afar.

Parent apparel will be ordered through Town Sports in Farmington again this year. We will send out the options via email by July 27, and you can go to Town Sports to look at the options and try things on, and then place the orders online. Orders for parent clothing are due August 13. Just like with the girls clothing, orders will only be processed when we know we are having a season.

Pictures More information about poster pictures will be coming in the next few weeks as well. We will be holding this as late as possible in order to be able to wear the new apparel for the pictures.

That was a lot of information, and probably generated a lot of questions that we don't currently have answers to. Please be patient, and let us know if you do have any questions. We will answer them to the best of our ability. We are hoping that everything goes as planned, and we are excited for and looking forward to a great season!